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...haired Maurice McLoughlin was obviously a "comet." Sad, sly little Henri Cochet, with rings under his eyes, is a "wizard." Tilden, tall, thin, dramatic, made an almost funnypaper contrast with William Johnston, short, thin, efficient: they were "Big Bill" and "Little Bill." Last week the galleries at Wimbledon, after watching some tennis as great as Wimbledon ever saw, felt around for a nickname for its exponent, a lanky, lazy-looking California boy who had come over to play in his first "world championship...
...year-old Frank Parker of Milwaukee played George Lott Jr., second-ranking player in the U. S., in the third round of the Western championship. Parker playing in short trousers and barelegged, won 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 3~6 6-3. . In the semi-finals he beat Tilden's onetime protege Junior Coen 6-4, 6-1 5-7,6-2. In the final his opponent was huge (6 11 6 in.) Lester Stoeffen of Los Angeles. Parker...
With little time for writing, "Steve" Hannagan sold a dozen articles to Cosmopolitan last year on such personages as Tunney, Tommy Milton, Johnny Weissmuller, Gar Wood, Bill Tilden, Albie Booth. Last October, aged 30, he married Ruth Ellery of Manhattan. He likes to lie beneath a Panatrope phonograph and whistle in tune with it. The sound of anyone eating an apple before breakfast sends him into a rage. He wishes he could tap dance, has no use for "public relations counsels." Odds, Ends...
Died. Lewis Cass Ledyard, 80, famed corporation lawyer, president since 1917 of the New York Public Library; of myocarditis; in Manhattan. Good friend to the elder John Pierpont Morgan and Payne Whitney, he executed their estates. As trustee of the fund created by Samuel Jones Tilden, he helped merge the Astor and Lenox Libraries into the New York Public Library. Lawyer Ledyard, like his partners James Coolidge Carter and John George Milburn, was a onetime president of the New York Bar Association. For 30 years he was counsel to the New York Stock Exchange. In an age of business dinosaurs...
Score--Battery A 13 1-3, Harvard 4 1-2 Goals--Reed 5, Moore 5, Clark 3, Benson, Illoway, McGuckin, Tilden. Handicaps Harvard 2. Foule--Benson, Potter. Time Six 5-minute chukkers. Referee--Captain L. S. Cunningham...